Центральный аэрогидродинамический институт имени профессора Н.Е. Жуковского Финансовый университет при Правительстве РФ MGIMO REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS • 14(1) • 2021 Конфликт интересов: Авторы заявляют об отсутствии конфликта интересов. Благодарности: Статья подготовлена при финансовой поддержке Российского фонда фундаментальных исследований, проект № 18-78-10123. Авторы выражают глубокую признательность Балацкому Евгению Всеволодовичу за комментарии и замечания к статье.

The article deals with the macro-outcomes and problems of socio-economic development of the post-Soviet states as a result of 30 years of disintegrated existence. Among the components studied are economic, social (education and demography) and political factors. 11 out of 15 former Soviet republics, while demonstrating acceptable GDP growth rates, approached bankruptcy in terms of external debt. With the exception of Lomonosov Moscow State University, no university in the past 30 years has been included in the rankings of top world universities, indicating that national higher education systems are on the margins. The politico-military conflict potential of the post-Soviet space revealed a highly unstable equilibrium to which considerable Russian resources are being diverted. Post-Soviet space lacks ideological basis for its own projects of prospective development. A sequence of "colored" revolutions in the neighboring states occurs, with the increasing number of "hot spots". The political status of Russiaʼs neighboring states allows almost half of its land border to be classified as a potential front line (6000 km). We contribute to existing literature by demonstrating that a single state regime was more advantageous for the former Soviet republics compared to current existence in the form of individual states.

The article is focused on the chronology and classification of territorial development agencies (corporations) as an instrument of state regional policy. The paper shows the threat of transformation of the potentially constructive role of corporations into a negative plane. The example of Poland illustrates the EUʼs intervention in the countryʼs internal affairs through regional development corporations as contact points. In Kazakhstan, the first wave of social and entrepreneurial corporations, which were created in 2006–2007 on an extraterritorial basis, caused an internal conflict between the elites, which led to the reformatting of this institution and its subordination to the existing system of regional management (“one district – one region”). The pluralism of approaches to the formation of a network of regional development corporations (“bottom-up” – “top-down”, monoterritoriality – extraterritoriality, etc.) provides opportunities for managerial experimentation, the results of which in the territory of the Russian Federation were expressed in the mass of economic and managerial structures at the federal and regional levels. At the same time, the macroeconomic success of their joint activities remains unclear. For the Russian Federation, the model of consolidation and development of the internal economic space on the basis of corporations of macroregions representing a set of neighboring subjects of the Russian Federation and historically having economic ties of varying degrees of breadth and strength seems appropriate. The model under consideration is based on a new institution of state ownership (macroregion ownership), which allows solving the problems of economic integration of territories by building extraterritorial production and economic complexes.